{"id":75926,"date":"2018-01-07T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/generation-gains-in-a-home-with-history-serena-fokschaner\/"},"modified":"2018-01-07T13:03:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T06:03:01","slug":"generation-gains-in-a-home-with-history-serena-fokschaner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/generation-gains-in-a-home-with-history-serena-fokschaner\/","title":{"rendered":"Generation gains in a home with history | Serena Fokschaner"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOnce owned by Oxford university, this old cottage has been given a modern twist, says Serena FokschanerDi Humphreys pulls out a photo of her late mother, Ruth. Perched on their parents\u2019 knees, Ruth and her sister Hana, smiling into the camera lens, are a vision of contentment. But in 1939 Ruth found herself on a train from Prague to London, one of 669 largely Jewish children rescued from Nazi clutches by Sir Nicholas Winton as part of the Czech Kindertransport mission.Arriving in London, a numbered tag strung around her neck, a salami stowed in her bag, Ruth was separated from her sister. \u201cMy mother was taken in by a family in Birmingham. She never saw her parents again. They were sent to Auschwitz,\u201d says Di. Ruth later married an Englishman and settled in the Midlands. \u201cThroughout her life she never complained. She was so positive about everything \u2013 especially family. That\u2019s something she passed on to me.\u201d Continue reading…
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